This blog highlights how applications built around DWF can do more than what can be done just using paper. The blog covers the building (architectural/electrical/construction), manufacturing, and infrastructure (e.g., GIS, telecommunications) industries.

April 18, 2007

Buzzsaw File Download Script

Many DWF users are also Buzzsaw users. Buzzsaw is one of Autodesk's service offerings in the area of Collaborative Project Management. I have often mentioned Buzzsaw on this blog. I used to work on Buzzsaw. Software Developer and SQL Database Specialist, Mike Callahan once noted: "You can take the man out of Buzzsaw, but you cannot take Buzzsaw out of the man." Actually the relationship between DWF and Buzzsaw continues to be a strong one. Buzzsaw manages the relationship of DWG and reviewer comments using DWF.

So with this relationship in mind, Director of Solutions Engineering, Natarajan Srinivasan, shared a Visual Basic script that can be used to download files, DWF included, from a Buzzsaw site. The steps to installing teh script include: